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https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/02/11/famed-dissident-china-welding-people-shut-in-their-homes-to-fight-coronavirus/

 

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, a blind scholar and Nobel Peace Prize nominee who escaped from house arrest and found asylum with the United States in 2012, wrote about Chinaโ€™s authoritarian response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak at the Washington Post last week.

 

One of the charges he leveled in the article is that people suspected of infection in Wuhan are being welded into their homes by the authorities, their doors and windows sealed with metal bars so they cannot escape.

 

Chen, who is now on the faculty at Catholic University of America and a senior fellow in human rights at the Witherspoon Institute, argued that the coronavirus is proving just how dangerous authoritarianism can be, since Beijingโ€™s immediate response to the problem โ€” once it emerged from a disastrous month of pretending it did not have a problem at all โ€” was to essentially toss 50 million people in prison by locking down Wuhan and the surrounding province: